Don’t raise unruly people in extreme cold weather

Chapter 531: The indigenous folk remedies
Although the medical team said that they did not rely on microscopes to achieve their research results, they were able to make a breakthrough with the help of microscopes.

After all, only under a microscope can we visually observe how the virus is killed.

And the method of killing the virus did come from the help of local people.

As mentioned earlier, the population of this blocked settlement is mainly composed of local indigenous tribes and a part of immigrants from the north, among which the local indigenous tribes account for the vast majority of the population of this settlement.

It is also because of this that when they were trying to stop the plague giants, it was the pioneer knights stationed in the area and the ancestral warriors of the indigenous tribes who worked together to fight against the plague giants' massacre of local residents.

Although they did not play much of a role, they still bought precious time for local residents to take refuge in underground shelters.

Among these local residents who hid underground was the shaman of this indigenous tribe, or you could also call him a witch doctor. At least this shaman did work part-time as a witch doctor.

It may seem counterintuitive, but the shamans of the local indigenous tribes are actually more experienced in treating diseases than ordinary doctors.

This is not a technological advantage, but the experience and wisdom accumulated by shamans of all generations.

In this era when modern medicine is in its infancy and doctors still treat patients with bloodletting and surgery without anesthesia, and rely on various folk remedies and pills to cure diseases, it is really hard to say who is better at curing diseases between a doctor who graduated from a medical school and an experienced indigenous shaman.

At least most of the things that Shaman said had been literally tested in life and death. And a graduate from a medical school? Sorry, getting a doctor's license means that he is qualified to practice medicine, but how much medical knowledge does he really have?
The medical license and medical school diploma that a doctor must have to practice medicine can be purchased by paying bribes.

Of course, if it is just a minor illness like a headache or fever, as long as the doctor is not lazy during class, he will be able to cure it to some extent.

It just depends on your luck whether he gives you a bottle of longevity cream or pours you a glass of original Coke.

In comparison, a witch doctor or shaman who is proficient in using various grass roots and tree barks may be able to come up with some traditional Chinese medicine with high effective ingredients to give you some indigenous shock and surprise.

At least in this case, the shaman of the local indigenous tribe did play a huge role in treating the plague.

She received guidance through prayers to the spirits of her ancestors, and then used her knowledge of herbal medicine to mix a special potion. She tried to treat the infected by applying it and feeding it orally.

Not everyone was cured. This kind of folk remedy, which seemed to have a bit of feudal superstition, was often made based on experience. The amount of effective ingredients in the medicine could not be controlled at all, so the efficacy of the medicine naturally depended on the weather.

But even if just one person's condition was under control, it would be a surprise to the medical team who had been at a loss.

Not to mention, some of them were actually cured.

So the medical team immediately reached a cooperation with the shaman. The medical team used more professional equipment and instruments to help the shaman make medicine, and then recorded and observed the efficacy of the medicine through various means such as comparative experiments to determine the best treatment plan.

In addition, they did not forget to observe and record through a microscope the reaction produced when the active ingredients obtained after extraction and purification of the drug were dropped into the virus sample.

The results were naturally gratifying. After extraction and purification, the active ingredients of the drug effectively inhibited and killed the virus, and the effect was quite good. They hurriedly reported their results to their superiors. Princess Anne, who learned of the situation, notified Perfect, which led to Perfect coming in person to listen to the results report.

Perfect was indeed somewhat surprised by the result. She did not expect that the plague, which she thought was incurable, could be cured by a local indigenous shaman.

This strong contrast is as outrageous as a two-meter-tall muscular man wearing a steam knight armor and then putting on a maid outfit to clean the house.

Although it is not impossible to do so, the visual effect is quite different.

However, Perfect is a pragmatist. As long as the problem can be solved, she doesn't care whether it is solved by the shaman's folk remedies or the doctor's medical solutions.

In particular, after she summoned the indigenous shaman and asked him for relevant information, the answer she got was that the prescription came from the revelation of the ancestral spirits.

"The spirits of our ancestors? It seems I have overlooked something crucial." Perfect suddenly recalled that he had studied the totem poles and spirits of our ancestors. He couldn't help but feel that this was not so hard to accept.

As special beings that have existed on this land for hundreds or even thousands of years, the spirits of ancestors have accumulated knowledge and insights far beyond the imagination of ordinary people.

Even if the ancestor spirit only lives in the tribe it protects and does not know too many things, even a pig would become a spirit after living for hundreds of years.

Not to mention that the ancestral spirits themselves possess certain magical abilities. When they encounter problems that they cannot solve on their own, they can also seek help from nature.

There are responses from nature itself, and occasionally from other ancestral spirits.

After all, the spirits of the ancestors are not imprisoned prisoners. Although they live in totem poles, they can also leave the totem poles and move around.

Under such conditions, it is not difficult to accept that an ancestor spirit who has lived for hundreds of years can come up with a prescription to cure the plague.

This also made Perfect suddenly pay attention to the local natives who had been ignored by her.

You must know that this is also a powerful existence with a complete extraordinary system and its own civilization, which was once able to compete with the Victoria Empire.

Even though they have been defeated by the empire and many of their precious heritages have been lost, this does not mean that these natives have completely lost their heritage.

The empire simply defeated, crushed and drove away these natives, but did not scalp them at a fixed price.

"Perhaps I should summarize some of the 'folk remedies' that the natives have?" Perfect touched his chin. The 'folk remedies' here are not limited to prescriptions for medicine.

(End of this chapter)